Material Plane
The Material Plane is the Inner Sphere reality in which the planet of Golarion finds itself, along with its sun and its 10 sister planets. It is an unending universe occasionally harboring life on terrestrial planets or other less-stable celestial bodies. Most mortals live out their lives on this plane.
The Material Plane is practically infinite in scale, with galaxies separated by vast voids, each galaxy containing countless stars, many stars anchoring systems of other bodies, and innumerable other phenomena in between. Its diversity, which blends concepts and creations from all other planes across its countless worlds, results in many metaphysical scholars placing the Material Plane at the center of multiversal models.
Metaphysics
The Material Plane is governed by fixed, if magically mutable, laws of physics, such as gravity and a fixed speed of light.
Relationships to other planes
The Material Plane is metaphysically coterminous with the First World and Shadow Plane, existing in slightly unaligned dimensions of the same cosmological space with the Ethereal Plane between them as a bordering transitive plane. The First World is pulled away from the anchoring Material Plane by its relationship to the Positive Energy Plane, while the Shadow Realm is pulled away by the Negative Energy Plane. Creation myths
Genies and elementals state and believe that the Elemental Planes existed before the birth of the Material Plane. Eventually, the Elemental Planes mixed with the Positive Energy Plane, Creation's Forge, and the latter's life-giving energies helped create the Material Plane. Many scholars believe there is some element of truth within this myth regarding the real historical facts.
Metaphysics
The Material Plane is governed by fixed, if magically mutable, laws of physics, such as gravity and a fixed speed of light.
Relationships to other planes
The Material Plane is metaphysically coterminous with the First World and Shadow Plane, existing in slightly unaligned dimensions of the same cosmological space with the Ethereal Plane between them as a bordering transitive plane. The First World is pulled away from the anchoring Material Plane by its relationship to the Positive Energy Plane, while the Shadow Realm is pulled away by the Negative Energy Plane. Creation myths
Genies and elementals state and believe that the Elemental Planes existed before the birth of the Material Plane. Eventually, the Elemental Planes mixed with the Positive Energy Plane, Creation's Forge, and the latter's life-giving energies helped create the Material Plane. Many scholars believe there is some element of truth within this myth regarding the real historical facts.
History
The Material Plane was created by primordial deities as a complex receptacle and testing ground for souls, as part of a larger process to distribute positive energy between gods and planes of the Outer Sphere. The First World is a predecessor of the Material Plane, created as a first attempt at a Material Plane and then directly overwritten by the plane as it exists today.
The Universe
Sphere Inner Sphere
Gravity Normal
Time Normal
Realm Immeasurable
Structure Lasting
Essence Mixed
Alignment None
Magic Normal
Gravity Normal
Time Normal
Realm Immeasurable
Structure Lasting
Essence Mixed
Alignment None
Magic Normal
Type
Plane of Existence
Included Locations
- Denizens Varied mortal life, both mundane and bizarre
- Divinities Gozreh; Arazni, Great Old Ones, kami lords, Kitumu, oni daimyo, rakshasa immortals, Outer Gods, Ydersius
- Description Endless void very occasionally filled with countless celestial objects
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